A.D. 1189. CHAETEE OF THE KING OF ENGLAND. 131 The Charter of the Icing of England as to tJie liberties granted him to William, king of Scotland. " Richard, by the grace of God, king of England, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and earl of Anjou, to the archbishops, bishops, abbats, earls, barons, justices, and sheriffs', and all his servants and faithful people throughout the whole of England, greeting. Know ye that we have restored to our most dearly-beloved cousin William, by the same grace king of the Scots, his castles of Roxburgh and Berwick, to be held by him and his heirs for ever as his own of hereditary right. We have also acquitted and released him of and from all covenants and agreements which Henry, king of England, our father, of happy memory, extorted from him by new charters, and in consequence of his capture ; upon condition, however, that he shaB in aB things do unto us as fuBy as Malcolm, king of the Scots, his brother, did as of right unto our predecessors, and of right was bound to do. We likewise wiB do for him whatever of right our predecessors did and were bound to do for the said Malcolm, both in his coming with a safe-conduct to our court, and in his returning from our court, and whBe he is staying at our court, and in making all due provision for him, and according to him aB Bberties, dignities, and honors due to him as of right, according as the same shaB be ascertained by four of our nobles who shall be selected by the said king WBBam, and four of his nobles who shaB be selected by us. And if any one of our subjects shaB, since the time when the said king WBBam was taken prisoner by our father, have seized upon any of the borders or marches of the kingdom of Scotland, without the same being legaBy adjudicated to him; then we do wBl that the same shaB be restored to him in full, and shaB be placed in the same state in which they were before he was so taken prisoner. Moreover, as to his lands which he' may hold in England, whether in demesne or whether in fee, that is to say in the county of Huntingdon, and in all other counties, he and his heirs shaB hold the said counties as fuBy and freely for ever as the said Malcolm held or ought to have held the same, unless the said Malcolm or his heirs shaB have since enfeoffed any one of the same ; on the further condition also that if any one shaB be hereafter enfeoffed of the same, the services of the said fees shaB belong to him or his heirs. And if our said father shaB have given anything to. WiBiam, king of the Scots, we do wiB that the same shaB be hereby ratified and con